The Loop  ·  Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Export Controls

  1. · News

    A Supreme Court justice and a Carnegie president — Anthropic named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first Chief Global Affairs Officer on August 4, five months into a Pentagon fight

    On August 4, Anthropic hired former Carnegie Endowment president and California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer. Five months into a Pentagon fight, this is the hire the company needed at the top of the market.

    Aug 6, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  4. · News

    The kill switch had a return date — Claude Fable 5 comes back globally after nineteen days, Commerce Secretary Lutnick's letter drops the export-license requirement, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Google agree to draft an industry-wide jailbreak-severity framework

    On July 1, 2026 Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 globally after nineteen days offline. Commerce Secretary Lutnick's letter dropped the export-license requirement for a set of standing obligations, and four US labs agreed to draft a shared jailbreak-severity framework.

    Jul 1, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  5. · News

    Same harness, second name — OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on Friday into the customer-by-customer government clearance that took Anthropic offline thirteen days earlier

    On Friday June 26, 2026, OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 in three flavours — Sol, Terra, Luna — and confirmed that initial access runs through about twenty partners vetted by ONCD, OSTP and Commerce. Thirteen days earlier the same three offices switched off Anthropic.

    Jun 30, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  6. · News

    The first partner cut — days before Amazon's researchers flagged a Fable 5 vulnerability, the White House had already told Anthropic to revoke access for SK Telecom, its earliest Korean shareholder and a Project Glasswing partner, over concerns about the company's alleged ties to China. Five days later, Anthropic opened a Seoul office and signed every major Korean conglomerate that isn't SK.

    The Washington Post and WIRED reported the shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 did not begin with Amazon's vulnerability finding. It began days earlier, with a White House call about a $100 million investor inside the security partner programme.

    Jun 19, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  7. · News

    The kill switch did the diplomacy — five days after Washington took Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat down at the G7 in Évian-les-Bains and asked the allies to sign up for an explicitly US-led AI coalition. Canada said yes; France brought a list.

    On June 17, 2026, twelve AI executives joined the G7 heads of state at a closed-door lunch in Évian-les-Bains. Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led AI coalition — five days after Washington took Anthropic's flagship models offline globally.

    Jun 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  8. · News

    The investor pulled the lever — Amazon's Andy Jassy phoned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday about a Fable 5 jailbreak, and twenty-eight hours later Anthropic's largest backer had switched off Anthropic's flagship product

    WSJ reported June 13 that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised the Fable 5 jailbreak with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday June 11. The Commerce directive landed Friday. Amazon has put $13 billion into Anthropic and plans up to $20 billion more.

    Jun 16, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  9. · News

    Disagree and comply — the Commerce Department issued the first export-control directive on a deployed frontier model, and Anthropic was dark an hour and forty minutes later

    At 5:21pm Eastern on June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national. The lab complied within an hour and forty minutes. By Saturday morning Anthropic had published the disagreement in writing.

    Jun 13, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor